Improvement in machines for making- wire bells



R. W. NORTON.

. Machine for Making Wire Bells.

Patented Aug. 30, 1870.

RUSSELL W. NORTON, OFQINIEWHAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 106,951, dated ifug'ust 30, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR MAKING- WIRE BELLS.

'1'he Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same '1 0 all whom. it may concern Be it known, that I, RUSSELL W. Nonrox, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Machine for Making Wire Bells; and I do hereby declare that the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this speoification,-and represents m- Figure 1, a side view;

Figure 2, atop view;

Figure 3,-a longitudinal central section;

Figure 4, an end view of one ofthe heads;

Figure 5, an end view of the other. head; and in Figure 6, an end view of the wire preparatory to winding. This invention relates to an in'iprovement in making bells from wire, for various purposes.

Herctofore these bells have been wound bylmnd, simply, coiling the wire, and then adjusting the several coils to each other.

The object of my invention isto avoid this adjustment, by causing the machine which winds the wire to discharge the bells completely adjusted, ready for and It consists in a fixed head, combined with a revolving head, in one of which a projection is formed, and in the other a recess,.the projection being of the di ante-tor of the inner coil, and the recess enough larger to admit the several coils when wound upon the proicctiomthe two surfaces holding the wire between them in proper relative position, so that, after winding, the bell discharged properly adjusted.

A is the bench or table upon which the machine is set. 1

B, the bed-plate.

O, the fixed head, supported on an upright, D.

E is the other head, fixed to and so as to revolve with a mandrel, F, the said mandrel supported in bearings F.

G is the pulley, through which power is communicated to the mandrel, by means ota clutch, H, by

bringing the said clutch into contact with thepulley,

as denoted in broken lines, fig. 3. 1

other head, hutvot less diameter, that .is to say, the

diameter of the inner coil of the b'el l,and on'this projection a recess, f, is formed, to receive the endsof the bell-wire. v

To wind the hell by this machine, I place the end of the wire, which is seen about full size in fig. 6, into the recess f in the head E, and force the head E up against the head 0, as denoted in broken lines, fig. 3,

the wire extending out through the opening (I then throw in the clutch, which causes the head E. to re.- volve with considerable rapidity, and the wire is wound onto the projection I) of one head, and into the space d of the other head, each successive coil lying closely upon the other, and held in proper rela-' tive position by the two heads, and, when fully wound and revolved suflicicntly to retain its form, throw back the head E, and remove the bell, the reaction'of the wire opehing all thecoils equally. The bell is in the exact shape required for use, and without the necessity of adjusting any of the coils or parts of the bell.

Either head may be caused to revolve, thatis to say, they may be arranged the reverse of'what I have described.

I claim- Jointly, the construction, as herein described, of the recesses in thefiices of the heads 0 and E, the arrangement of said heads with thcir faces inparallel planes, and with their axes in line with each other, and the combination therewith of mechanism to both rotate and reciprocate the head E, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' R. W. NORTON.

Witnesses;

J. H. SHUMWAY, A. J. TIDBITS. 

